# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S117
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Elementary Education 117

subsidy from Synod the recipient congregation or District Board
shall carry at least one half, and in a third year three fourths. The
principle underlying this restriction is chiefly to aid as widely as
possible and also to guard against an undue shifting of the burden
of school subsidy away from the Districts.

12. Applications for subsidy, if a missionary project, should
be approved by the District Mission Board and sent to the Home
Missions Board (Secretary of Missions); in all other cases they
should be approved by the District Board of Education and sent to
Synod’s Board of Christian Education (Secretary of Schools). But
both boards, in the Districts and in the Synod, shall keep each other
constantly informed on applications received and subsidies granted.

Woman Teachers. Government Subsidies

Committee 7 brought in the following recommendations on
Woman Teachers and Government Subsidies:

Since woman teachers have been employed in our Christian
day-schools for years and Synod is giving women a normal training
equivalent to that of men at Seward, and since frequent requests
have been made for a clear definition as to the status of woman
teachers, your Committee concurs in the recommendation of the
Board of Christian Education that the Honorable President of
Synod appoint a committee to define the status of the woman
teacher in our parochial schools.

Whereas recent developments in Government subsidies to in-
dividuals, groups, and institutions for educational pursuits have
raised questions of far-reaching implications with regard to the
policy of State aid to pupils and students attending church-schools,
your Committee concurs in the following recommendation of the
Educational Conference: That we respectfully request the Presi-
dent of Synod to appoint a committee of thoroughly qualified men
to study present-day trends in this direction, draw up an opinion
on the questions of principles involved, and make available the
results of their findings to all District boards of education as early
as possible during the next triennium.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.

Executive Secretary

In regard to an Executive Secretary for the Board of Christian
Education, Committee 7 brought in the following recommendations:

1. In reference to the statement of the Board of Christian
Education that it is ready to call an Executive Secretary, your Com-
mittee begs to remind the Honorable Synod that this office was
created by the Milwaukee Convention in 1932. Your Committee
recommends that this resolution be now carried out.